Last week on General Hospital, Alexis took it upon herself
to run a DNA test proving that Olivia’s newly adopted son, Mateo, was actually
Leo, the baby Olivia gave birth to and claimed died a dew months earlier.
Olivia spun her lie because Leo’s father, Julian (currently Alexis’ boyfriend),
is a well-known mobster, and after hiding her first-born son, Dante, from his
mobster daddy, Sonny, Olivia knows only one way to parent (not getting pregnant
by mobsters was apparently never considered as an option).
However, Alexis (who, once upon a time hid her own daughter,
Kristina, from her father, the aforementioned Sonny, for the exact same reason
that Olivia was now hiding Leo from Julian, and even used the same man, Ned, to
pretend to be the dad) decided that since Julian swore he was out of the mob
these days, it was perfectly safe for him to co-parent Leo. And it was her job
to make that happen. This is the same Alexis who goes around incessantly
reminding anyone who’ll listen (and many who won’t) that she is a strong,
independent, infinitely admirable woman who needs a man the way a fish needs a
bicycle, power to feminism, girl power, et. al…. But when it came to choosing
between her fellow woman, Olivia, currently in the exact same predicament
Alexis once found herself in and making the exact same choice, and Julian – who
has really, really nice abs and is willing to give Alexis the time of day –
guess who came out on top?
So there’s no question about it. Alexis is the worst.
But Olivia is also an idiot. Claim your infant is dead, then
show up a few weeks later with a tot the exact same age he would have been whom
you claim you adopted? Seriously? Odds are even baby Leo/Mateo didn’t fall for
that bit of chicanery.
Then again, Olivia isn’t the first soap-opera heroine to
come up with that brilliantly diabolical scheme. Check out five of her
historical foremothers from Days of Our Lives, As the World Turns, All My Children, Guiding Light, and Another World at "Entertainment Weekly," here.
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